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Companies Focusing On Developing Millimeter-wave Communication Chips

Looks like Japanese manufacturers (Hitachi, Panasonic and Toshiba) are gearing up to develop their own millimeter-wave communication ICs. They’re independently developing 60GHz-waveband radio frequency (RF) transceiver ICs, and if everything g…

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Gadgets |

Books disappear from Amazon as old media battles new retail

The rise of digital media has led to many a battle between the old guard—record labels, television networks, movie studios, and book publishers—and the companies that sell their wares to the public. The latest skirmish betw…

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Technology |
 

Google to send Internet Explorer 6 users packing come March

Google is continuing to kill off support for Internet Explorer 6 in its services; the search giant has announced that two more of its Web properties will stop supporting IE6 as of March 1. “Many other companies have already stopped supporting older …

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Technology |

Give Space a Chance, Says Phil Plait

The Bad Astronomer writes “A lot of pundits, scientists, and people who should know better are decrying the demise of NASA, saying that the President’s budget cutting the Constellation program and the Ares rockets will sound the death knell of manne…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Technology |
 

Top 10 technology company mergers

Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 30 January 2010 at 20:29:00Big deals that had a big impactJust about every month we see some big company snatching up a smallercompany. With little to no activity in the IPO space f…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Technology |

Amazon Pulls Book Publisher’s Listings; Ebook Wars Underway?

As of last night, Amazon stopped listing all books from Macmillan Publishers, referring searches to other sellers instead. According to the New York Times, this is because Macmillan is one of the companies that now has an agreement to sell ebooks th…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Technology |
 

Volatile stock market weighing on IPOs

Companies trying to sell their shares in initial public offerings had a hard time finding willing buyers in January – a trend that will likely continue until the stock market stabilizes.

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Technology |

Econ 101: Study Shows That If Record Labels Lowered Prices On Music, They Would Sell A Lot More

Having talked with a bunch of music execs recently, as well as a few different companies that do analytics in the music space, one thing became clear: unlike most other industries, record label execs tend not to be particularly data or analytics-dri…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Technology |

Fring, iCall Support VOIP Over 3G On iPhone; Where Is Skype?

While AT&T long ago announced it was removing any restrictions on iPhone VOIP application on their network, Apple didn’t follow suit. With the release of the latest, iPhone / iPad / iPod touch SDK, that restriction has been removed, and VOIP compan…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Technology |

ASCII Group Selects 2X Software to Expand Virtual Computing Offerings for $10.5 B Reseller Network

DALLAS, January 29 /PRNewswire/ –

– 2X Software Adds its Virtual Computing Product Line to ASCII Group
Offerings to its Extensive Reseller Network

2X Software today announced its partnership with the ASCII Group to offer
the 2X virtual c…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Technology |